April: [Had too many facial piercings; eyebrow, nostril, labret ... not a good look.]
July:
August: spent pretty much all of my time with Charity.
November:
December:
[^This was me on my 18th birthday - December 4th]
Got my job at Family Fare on the 6th.
Spent a lot of time at my sister's apartment downtown when I wasn't working - played a lot of guitar hero. This was probably my lowest weight:
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2007:
January:
March:
[^80's themed party at my sister's apartment. L to R: Emily Brouwers, Kacey Morgan, Samme Hernandez, Joi Dupler, me.]
Decided to get rid of the black hair I've had since 2004:
April:
[^Me, Cody, Adam]
[^Abi and me. I'm in the green.]
[^I'm at the top of the pyramid, Matt Proch is behind me, and Kacey and Samme are at the bottom.]
June:
[^Got in a bicycle accident - messed up my chin.]
July:
[^The night before I went back to the hospital early-early morning, a week after the bike accident.]
[^Me very groggy, on an IV with potassium pumping into my veins. I had severely low iron and potassium - probably from being a lazy vegetarian, but most likely from the eating disorder.]
August:
[^My sister and me at the beach in Grand Haven. I'm in the red.]
[^I spent a lot of time at Samme/Brittany's house when they lived on Fulton.]
September:
[^I'm in the pink]
October:
[^Hair started growing loooong.]
Stopped brushing my hair - wanted dreads again [I had them in late '04 for a short time.]:
[^Me with Abi and Brittany]
[^Dreads were probably around a week old here.]
[^Halloween! Kacey was a scene girl, Cody was a farmer, and I was Vince Neil.]
November:
December:
[^This was my 19th birthday. We had lots of vodka, beer, and bloody Mary's. That's a cracker in my mouth.]
[^Christmas was fun. Kacey, Cody, my brother's wife at the time, and me went on a late-night adventure for booze. We drove all the way out to Marne, actually. Nobody sold it! So we brought Lindsey back to my house and the three of us ventired over to Brittany's house]
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2008:
January:
[^Me, Abi and Kacey]
March:
[^ St. Patrick's Day!]
April:
I combed out my dreads sometime mid-April.
June:
[^This was the night the Boston Celtics won the NBA championship. I truly hate the Lakers, but I had my reasoning to root for them.]
July:
[^ Cody, Kacey and me. I believe this is the last picture I have of us all together before Cody decided he didn't want to hang around anymore.]
August:
[^Kacey cut my hair. I hadn't had it this short in a long, long time but I needed a change.]
September: [These are all from Lydia's redneck/white trash party.]
[^Me with Brandon McClure.]
[^Me with Paul Winslow.]
[^Me with Paul Daniels.]
October:
December: [I have no pictures from my 20th birthday, but this is from around mid-December.]
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2009:
January:
April:
May: [This was the first night I hung out with my long-time crush/now boyfriend. I passed out on him. Not a good first impression!]
June:
July: [Hair got long out of what seems like nowhere!]
[^Me and my boy <3]
August:
September:
[^Stopped brushing again.]
[^Few dreads in. One of them I sewed in from my last set.]
[^Gangster party. Dreads were complete.l
October:
[^Halloween costume.]
November:
I've changed a lot appearance-wise. I'm still not happy with myself, and I don't think I'll ever be. But I'm going to keep trying.
